Letter to Doris Mellor during WW1, paper, 1917.

Letter to Doris Mellor during WW1, paper, 1917.

Museum ID: WNDRB : 2010.2.196.1

A letter from a German Prisoner of War camp, from T.R.Kirkpatrick to Miss Doris Mellor, dated 3rd July 1917. The letter has been heavily censored, with one whole page missing. We do not know who Kirkpatrick was or what happened to him. During her final years, she was Secretary of the Landscape sub-committee of the Windsor and Eton Society, and was a tireless campaigner against insensitive developments. Her most famous campaign was to challenge the borough's plan to build a multi-storey car park on Bachelors Acre, taking the case right through to the Court of Appeal. The Master of the Rolls, Lord Denning, ruled in her favour, and Bachelors Acre is now a Town Green and cannot be built on. Doris Mellor was awarded the MBE in 1977. She died in 1981, aged 87, and is commemorated by a plaque on Bachelors Acre, Mellor House in Peascod Street and Mellor Walk between Acre Passage and Peascod Place. We have several objects associated with Miss Mellor in the Museum collection. This letter is one of a collection of objects all relating to Clewer, Windsor, originally on display at Clewer Museum in the Lodge of St. Andrews Church, Clewer. The exhibition closed in the early 2000s.

Measurements: 177 x 110

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